Shower-bath bucket



(No Model.)

'Patented Mar. l4, I899. W. M. DAVIS.

SHOWER BATH BUCKET.

(Application filed Sept. 22, 1898.)

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PATENT SHOWER-BATH BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 621,042, dated March 14, 1899.

Application filed September. 22, 1898, Serial No. 691,640. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, WILLIAM MORGAN DA- vIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gatesville, in the county of Ooryell and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Shower-Bath Bucket, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a shower bath bucket adapted to be suspended from a convenient overhead support and provided with means whereby the outlet of the liquid may be controlled by the bather with facility, and hence to provide a device of this class which may be supported in different positions to suit the conditions under which it is used.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shower-bath bucket constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the same.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings.

The device embodying my invention con sists, essentially, of a bucket having a main perforated bottom 1, adapted to discharge or distribute water in fine streams, and also having at an interval above theplane of said main bottom an auxiliary or false bottom 2, which is solid or imperforate. This divides the interior of the bucket to form a main or reservoir chamber 3 and a subjacent distrib- A preferred construction of bucket is illus-' trated in the drawings, wherein the wall of the main or reservoir chamber 3 is upstruck at its lower edge to form an exterior lip 8, engaged with a bead 9, formed upon the up per edge of the cylindrical wall 10 of the distributing-chamber, the edge of the false bottom 2 being secured in said bead 9, together with the lower edge of the wall of the main chamber 3, as clearly indicated in Fig. 2. Also at the upper edge of the inclined wall of the main chamber 3 are located the diametrically opposite ears 11, with which are engaged the extremities of a bail 12, having a central, preferably integral, ring or eye 13 for engagement with a suspending-hook 14.

It will be understood that the bucket embodying myinvention may be suspended from the ceiling or other suitable support in any convenient position for use and that various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

' Having described my invention, I claim- A shower-bath bucketoomprising a mainreservoir wall, a supporting-bail connected with the upper edge of said wall, a distributin g-chamber having a perforated bottom and an upstanding side wall terminating in a bead in which the lower edge of the main-reservoir wall is secured, a main-reservoir floor also'fitted at itsedge in said bead of the distributing-reservoir wall, and having a depending tube 5 for conveying the contents of the main reservoir into the distributingchamber, and a valve controlling the communication through said tube and provided, exteriorly of the distributing-chamber wall, with a grip or handle by which the valve may be turned, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim'the foregoing as 'my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM MORGAN DAVIS. Witnesses:

G. B. MCGUIRE, J. E. OSBURN. 

